Scott Interview - music, plans and habits from an emerging German duo

Scott Interview - music, plans and habits from an emerging German duo

8 May, 2008 | 12.48PM

• Section: Music News
• Written by: bagpakmusic

With the aim to create soulful minimal music thru live instrumentation, Jan Brauer and Daniel Brandt came together to create Scott in 2006.

Their debut EP on Bagpak Solo Series, ‘Sweep,’ is a solid 4-tracker and bonus instrumentals featuring Bristol’s Bubbz and Munich’s Jerryl on vocals focused on the soulful broken-house sound.

Not surprisingly, even a few weeks before the official release it received a warm welcome from many in the biz, coverage in columns of industry mags such as XLR8R, and radio plays across the field.

We asked them a few bits ‘bout Scott, this EP, fave music and habits which they were glad to share.

Check it out.

Who is Scott? What’s it all about?
Jan Brauer and me had met in school already many years ago and always wanted to start our own band.

We first had and still have the band The Free Electric Band together with our friend Julian Schleef.

We dress up like a cowboy, a biker and a scientist and do a very performance-oriented techno live show.

But then there was a day when Jan showed me how to use Ableton live and we immediately had some tracks ready which sounded too different from the Free Electric Band and which wouldn’t fit into that context.

So we decided to start a side-project and called it Scott.

We were both really infected by the ability to record real instruments very session-like and very fast with Ableton.

Most of the sounds on our tracks are played on real instruments, especially the drum sounds.

We finally started to work on our live set where we play with e-drums, keyboards and a laptop.

We recently had our first gig at the ‘5 years of Doppelschall’ party and a mini-tour in Hamburg, Cologne, Tokyo and the ‘Nachtdigital’ Festival in Germany.

So what else is in the pipeline for 2008, what other releases have you got planned?

We have two tracks on a compilation by Fluid Ounce records coming up, a second release on Doppelschall records and afterwards we have some different things planned with a release from a Berlin based Techno producer who is part of the Tresor crew under a different name, as well as some mp3 only releases to fill the gap between the records.

We also worked together with Aroop Roy for an EP which we will release under the name of Scott & Roy.

Doppelschall records is your own label, what’s the story behind it?

Doppelschall started originally 5 years ago as a bunch of people organizing parties in an old basement in the city centre in my hometown Wiesbaden, but we had to shut this place down because of problems with the neighbours.

We started to extend our parties to other locations and also other cities, and we always wanted to start a record label to release the stuff we like.

So we finally started to do this in early 2007.

Our plan is to release quality dance music (ranging from minimal techno, house to broken beat and hip hop). The only important thing for us is that the music is interesting and kind of special.

We don’t plan to release just very toolish dance tracks.

How did this EP come together?

Many small parts have been recorded in many different places (’Mr. Sneak’ in Cologne, other tracks in our garage in Wiesbaden, and the vocal track for ‘No Matter’ in Munich).

Whats your favorite and most widely used instrument?

The instrument that appears in nearly all Scott tracks is Fender Rhodes.

Favorite Tresor record?

Juan Atkins,’The Berlin Sessions’

Favorite late night snack?

Magnum Ice Cream

Football or Soccer?

Soccer.

[Hmm.. I think they meant football – its hard to imagine a German word for soccer - but we appreciate the effort! ;)]

This EP is charted, played and supported by Michael Rütten (Compost Records, Soul Searching), Dialect (Public Transit), Soulphonic Soundsystem, Kay Suzuki (CO-OP), Alf Tumble (Heya Hifi), Eddy from Eddy meets Yannah (Do Right!, Ohm, Compost), Jonny Miller (Jus’Listen, Phuture Lounge) among others.

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